From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 16 13:28:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03678 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:28:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03434; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:27:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA26724; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 07:57:41 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id HAA04739; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 07:57:40 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980217075740.60224@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 07:57:40 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Yuri Krichevsky Cc: Michael Smith , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Serial ports on IWill motherboard References: <007201bd3ad0$c53efcd0$33ae58d1@yuryk.bistbn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <007201bd3ad0$c53efcd0$33ae58d1@yuryk.bistbn.com>; from Yuri Krichevsky on Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 01:48:17PM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 February 1998 at 13:48:17 +0200, Yuri Krichevsky wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Lehey > >> Sorry, no progress. We've established that it's because the chip >> isn't interrupting during the probe, and that adding delays to wait >> for it don't help, but we don't know why it isn't working. > >> Does anybody who has this board have something else than FreeBSD >> running on it? I'd be interested to hear if the problem is unique to >> FreeBSD. > > Yes, this problem is unique to FreeBSD. Linux (sorry ;-) and > Win95 (sorry :) detects serial ports without any problem. No need to apologize. Obviously it will work with Microsoft, because they wouldn't be able to ship if it didn't. The fact that it works with Linux is valuable information. > I think, > that problem is with 'PnP Multi I/O'..... > >> Also, if somebody who has easy access to the board could >> write down the numbers on the chips, this could help us. > > This is Acer Labs chip > > ALi > M5135 A1 > 9736 T56 > BC842510A > > Here you can find additional info about this chip > http://www.acerlabs.com/acerlabs/brief/m513xpb.htm Thanks. Just to confirm. This is the IWill board, is it? I see the first bullet: "Supports Serialized IRQ protocol". I wonder if this is something different. I'm copying Mike Smith on this--he's currently investigating the problem. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message